“From the White House, Donald Trump wields immense power and uses it without hesitation to extort Mexico on every possible front. The logic is brutally simple: The Mexican government is prepared to concede almost anything in order to safeguard the renegotiation of the USMCA and preserve the promise of low tariffs.”
Carlos Pérez Ricart
Tracing the history of DEA intervention in Mexico, Pérez Ricart argues that U.S. drug enforcement has generated more violence here than it has prevented.
In the fallout of the DEA’s shock announcement earlier this week, everyone is a loser, argues journalist Charlotte Smith.
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Called out for encouraging foreign intervention, the senator said “help” is not “intervention,” while accusing the president of protecting cartels.
